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One of policing's most contested powers, and what the evidence says about it.
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The Sun’s arrest headline raises a fair question about police activity. Official figures show arrests rising across most forces. Explore what that tells us, and what it leaves unanswered.
Wearing a balaclava is usually legal in England and Wales. Police need a legal power to make you remove it or leave an area. Temporary local rules can change the answer. Here are three common questions answered in plain English.
What procedural justice means for UK policing: four principles, evidence on trust and crime, and practical ways to improve stop and search and supervision.
BBC Radio 4's More or Less is useful professional development for anyone working with police data. Five habits matter most: check the denominator, definition, comparison, causal claim and your own instinct to believe the number.
A practical guide to police data literacy: how leaders can interrogate performance data, test professional instinct and avoid misleading conclusions.
Robert Peel created the Metropolitan Police in 1829, but the nine 'Peelian principles' were not written by him. What the history actually supports — and why policing by consent remains a useful test of legitimacy.
